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Nearly Half of U.S. Adults have Heart or Blood Vessel Disease
A new report estimates that nearly half of all U.S. adults have some form of heart or blood vessel disease, a medical milestone that's mostly due to recent guidelines that expanded how many people have high blood pressure. The American Heart Association said Thursday that more than 121 million adults had cardiovascular disease in 2016. Taking out those with only high blood pressure leaves 24 million, or 9 percent of adults, who have other forms of disease such as heart failure or clogged arteries. Measuring the burden of diseases shows areas that need to improve, the heart association's chief science and medical officer, D...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - February 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Patient Care Cardiac & Resuscitation Source Type: news

Cardiac Arrest Gets Little Research Funding Despite Huge Death Toll
Cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in the U.S. but gets just a fraction of the government’s funding for medical research, according to a new study. Researchers aren’t sure exactly why there’s such a disparity in funding from the National Institutes of Health, but say more is definitely needed considering about 450,000 Americans die each year from cardiac arrest. Most cardiac arrest victims don’t survive. The new analysis of funding from 2007 to 2016 is the first to evaluate the annual trend of NIH cardiac arrest research funding over time, researchers said. The analysis was published Wednesday in the J...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - July 27, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: American Heart Association Tags: Administration and Leadership Industry News Source Type: news